"When I had felt compelled by increasing knowledge of nature to revise some of my traditional articles of religious faith, I was delighted to find that these changes had not modified in any essential respects my system of ethics. As I expressed it in my presidential address before the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1937: "The ethics of science regards the search for truth as one of the highest duties of man; it regards noble human character as the finest product of evolution; it considers the service of all mankind as the universal good; it teaches that human nature and humane nurture may be improved, that reason may replace unreason, cooperation supplement competition, and the progress of the human race through future ages be promoted by intelligence and goodwill.""
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Edwin Grant Conklin, in: p. 74 Thirteen Americans: their spiritual autobiographies Louis Finkelstein (ed.), 1953, p. 74
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Edwin Grant Conklin
Edwin Grant Conklin (November 24, 1863 – November 20, 1952) was an American biologist and zoologist.
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